Fisheries minister visits Tsukiji market

Fisheries minister visits Tsukiji market

TOKYO, Japan - Farm and fisheries minister Hirotaka Akamatsu (L) listens to a briefing in a tuna wholesale area at Tsukiji fish and food market in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2009. Akamatsu struck a cautious note about a controversial plan to move the market within the capital unless the issue of suspected land pollution at the relocation site is cleared.

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